American Heartland Landscape Paintings by Sharon France.
Original paintings of the old farms, barns, farmhouses, animals, and quiet country landscapes from the back roads of America.
Art to add some of the peace and quiet of the country to your life.

Monday, January 28, 2008

The Old Farm is Still Standing

Under a darkening sky this old farmstead has withstood the test of time and is still standing despite years of wind, storms and everyday use. This is a scene from my imagination, a slightly abstracted and simple minimalist landscape, of the Midwestern Heartland.

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Painting scenes of old rural American is my inspiration and passion. I paint my landscapes simply, from my heart. In my paintings I want to capture the feel of peaceful, quiet, isolation, found here yet.
I have always had a fascination with old farmsteads, especially the old farmhouses and barns found on them. Some of my fondest childhood memories and inspiration are from the visits to my grandparent's remote Midwestern farm. Set down a very long lane, that eventually wound around the old barn, horse pasture, granary, crib, machine shed, chicken house, to end up at their old farmhouse with a white picket fence in the yard beyond. The croquet set would be on the lawn and Grandma would have one of her homemade pies waiting on the kitchen counter. A little bit of heaven here on earth, it felt to me back then!
I hope that you will enjoy viewing my original paintings! My work has been described as having an intriguing peacefulness, in its quiet simplicity.
I love having the opportunity in life to paint, and hope that you will enjoy viewing my art work!
sharon@francegallery.net

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About Me

I specialize in paintings of old barns, farmhouses and quiet rural landscapes, found along the back roads of America. I hope that you will enjoy viewing my original landscape paintings!

I received a BFA in Fine Art and my original art has been shown in juried gallery art shows in the U.S. I am currently represented by The Chait Galleries Downtown, Artful Home and Ugallery. My web site: www.francegallery.net.

My paintings can be private collections throughout the U.S.A. as well as in: Iceland, France, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, England, Scotland, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil. An article about my original heartland landscape paintings was in the fine Art Magazine "Empty Easel". I have been happy to have my paintings featured as cover art on several book covers now: Praying With Your Whole Heart, Three Ways of Loving God, and Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond...

"I shut my eyes in order to see." Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles(1915 - 1985)

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. " Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."